Conway polyhedron notation
Conway polyhedron notation is a notation used to describe polyhedra based on a seed polyhedra modified by various operators. The seen polyhedraon consists of the platonic solides and are represented by their first letter of their name (T,O,C,I,D). Any polyhedra can serve as a seed polyhedron as long as the operations can be executed on the polyhedron.
Operations on polyhedra consist of:
- d - The dual of a polyheron
- tn - truncate all the vertices of a polyhedron with a regular polygon of n sides
- kn - kis operator converts polygons into sub polygons of triangles
- a - ambo truncates to the edge midpoints.
- j - join is the dual of ambo
- e - expand
- s - snub
- g - gyro
- b - bevel
- o - ortho
- m - meta
- r - reflect
- p - propellor
The operators are applied like functions from right to left. For example the dual of a tetrahedron is dT while the truncation of a Cubocohedron is t3C.